“DADDY!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 740

June 17, 2025///

Many reading this in the season of celebrating Fathers, did not have a father who was present, or a father who loved Jesus, or a father who showed you love!

You may be one who does not know who your father is!

On the other hand, you may have had a great father and celebrated with him this weekend!

Grief surrounds some of you who have a father who has left this world!

I am 80 years old, and my sweet daddy left this world to be with Jesus when I was 22 years old! As the years have gone by, memories have become sweeter.

So, I was surprised Sunday morning (Father’s Day), in church when I was suddenly overwhelmed with a desire to feel my dad’s hugs, see his smile and hear his laugh.

As tears filled my eyes, I had an intense longing to hear him say everything would be ok! I felt a desire to hear him preach the message of a savior who came to set us free to be all we are created to be!

Yes, my daddy was an old-time preacher man, and I learned so much from him! He has been gone a long time but the timeless lesson he taught me not just by words but by his actions live on in my heart!

As the praise songs were lifted to heaven, the desire to feel my dad’s hugs were replaced by the overwhelming presence of my Heavenly Father, the one who created me and knows me best!

Our Father in Heaven filled me with the warmth of His Love and the knowledge that everything would be all right because He was in control and guiding all that affects myself and all my earthly father’s descendants!

Our prayers and the way we live our life, effects not just now but generations to come!

Whatever your daddy circumstances are today, I have good news!

You are Loved unconditionally by the one who gives you every breath you breathe and desires to guide your day, your way, and your life, if you allow Him to!

He is the Father who is present, who shows us love every day, our defender, and our safe place!

No matter how precious and wonderful an earthly father may be none are perfect!

But our Father God, our Abba Father, our Daddy God, is perfect in all He does! He loves with perfect love and all good and perfect gifts come from Him who never changes!

James 1:17 (KJV)                Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

James 1:17 (TPT)                 Every gift God freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming down from the Father of lights, who shines from the heavens with no hidden shadow or darkness and is never subject to change.

God is good all the time and is the perfect father! We can snuggle up to Him and draw strength from His presence!

2 Corinthians 1:3 (KJV)                  Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

He is our comfort, joy, and peace!

Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)                        Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

We can rest in His Love and know He is always there!

I encourage you to let Him love you and guide you in all you do! You choose to honor Him and let Him fight your battles or ignore His care for you and do it yourself!

Like me, you may have had a great Daddy, but no one loves you like the one who created you and placed you on earth for a purpose!

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Father, thank you that you are our heavenly father who loves with a perfect and unconditional love! I pray that those who did not have a Daddy who loved God and who do not understand the love of a father will open their heart to your perfect love and walk in the light of who you are and who you are in us when we allow it! Touch all who read this and be very real to them! I ask this in Jesus’ name! Amen!

Love, MeMaw